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Noun: rundown 'rún`dawn
- A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
- summation, summing up
- Worn and broken down by hard use
"a run-down neighbourhood"
- creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, woebegone
- Having the spring unwound
"a run-down watch"
- Trace
"We are running down a few tips"
- check out
- Move downward
"The water ran down"
- Injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
- run over
- Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- poop out, peter out, run out, conk out
- Examine hastily
- scan, skim, rake, glance over
- Deplete
- exhaust, play out, sap, tire
- Pursue until captured
"They ran down the fugitive"
Derived forms: run down, ran down, runs down, rundowns, running down
See also: malfunctioning, nonfunctional, worn
Type of: act on, chase, chase after, consume, course, deplete, dog, eat, eat up, examine, exhaust, fatigue, feed, flow, follow up on, give chase, go after, injure, jade, pall, pursue, run, run through, see, summary, sum-up, tag, tail, tire, track, trail, use up, weary, wipe out, wound
Encyclopedia: Rundown
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